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It is a HUGE business in mechanical design spaces.
Low-quantity prototyping is prime realestate since injection molds cost 1500€ and rapid prototyping is not a thing without a bunch of money behind you.
My company does mostly medical devices and some consumer design doesn't have the equipment for high-quality 3D prints. We use a company called materialize that does extremely high quality sand-blasted or waterproof impregnated 3d prints as an example for low quantities. They made one prototype for us that literally sounded and felt like ceramic while being waterproof plastic.
It's good business. A run of 10 prints or so is also like 800€ or something, so they make decent money from it if they can automate the process as much as possible.